@GeorgeKatsanos What problems have you encountered? If they are fewer than when UEFI/Ubuntu rendered Windows inaccessible, I'll live with them for work.
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icedwaterJul 10 '14 at 8:31

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@icedwater When I first started I made an attempt, after struggling with major performance issues (NFS mainly) I was strongly advised to make a clean install or a new partition.. If you want it "for work", I'd go for Virtualbox + Ubuntu.. I use it for a year, works flawlessly.
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George KatsanosJul 10 '14 at 12:34

This email regards wubi, a tool used to set up Ubuntu in a dual boot
configuration in a manner that does not require disk partitioning.
Wubi is a windows program. It is currently delivered as a standalone
executable downloadable from the web, as well as part of official
Ubuntu images. You can read about wubi in the excellent user guide:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

I am proposing a small but notable change to how we deliver wubi for
12.04. I am proposing that:

We continue to test and bug fix wubi.exe as the separate Windows program

We cotinue to offer wubi.exe for download as the separate Windows program.

We disable the ability to do a wubi installation from the Ubuntu 12.04 ISOs. (wubi will remain on the images for the purpose of providing Windows users some feedback and functionality if they put a
Ubuntu CD into a running Windows computer, but won't offer to
install).

Separating the wubi.exe experience from the ISOs will give us the
following important benefits:

We will be able to do maintenance and enhancements to wubi outside of the Ubuntu development cycle.

Significant reduciton of QA work for an already over-streched QA team.

Better overall 12.04 quality, and less stress at release time.

We won't get stuck with a poor (or worse) user experience on the CD since is a good chance that wubi will not work properly with
Windows 8.

I am proposing these changes to the plan because:

The key use case for wubi is being able to download and run the installer on Windows, not installing from the ISO.

Wubi is difficult to test, so has been difficult to assure that it will meet the quality standards we have set for 12.04.

There are no developers treating wubi as their top priorities. This combined with the QA difficulties has historically caused late
breaking changes that add stress at release time and frequentily
invalidate already executed ISO testing.

Most significantly, Windows is changing it's boot system with Windows 8, and it's not clear how wubi will work with Windows 8, if at
all.

Note:
Running wubi.exe standalone will download a preinstalled tar.xz image. You can still place the Desktop CD ISO in the same directory as wubi.exe and install it like that without downloading the ~500MB tar.xz image.

However if you already done downloading the iso file you can use it, just mount it using DAEMON TOOL, download it here DAEMON Tools Lite v4.48.1 (with SPTD 1.84) or any where, then execute the WUBI.exe you download from.

NOTE: stay offline so that it will not download the iso file, instead of downloading the file from the net, it will get the file from the daemon)